Emergency Physicians International was founded in 2010 as a way to tell the stories of the heroic men and women developing emergency medicine around the globe. This magazine is dedicated to their tireless efforts saving lives in the harshest conditions, 24/7/365.

Violence against EMS workers is a growing problem. The Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) Department of Emergency Medical Sciences got together with the National Department of Health and Western Cape Government (WCG) to discuss solutions. Here is the position paper that resulted from that meeting.

Physician Kass Thomas gives a first person narrative of the 2015 bombing of the Kunduz Trauma Centre in Northern Afghanistan and explains the genesis of The Columbo Declaration, a document decrying the weaponization of healthcare.

In part 2 of this series, we’ll continue our conversation with the president of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine and talk about the unique opportunities and challenges faced by the organization.

Healthcare systems resemble microclimates, with a unique set of functions, resources, patients, vulnerabilities, and strengths. There is, however, a template for ED design that can account for these many variables, and guide all the stakeholders through the process of building an effective and efficient ED.

In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, at the Azadi Teaching Hospital, in Duhok, a native son of the region established a successful international collaboration to teach surgery and transplant medicine in a region still climbing out from under decades of political oppression.

This year DevelopingEM brings their concept of a supported and collaborative emergency medicine meeting to the Pacific, to the island of Fiji. Find out how you can get involved with this multi-national meeting.

The International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) has formed a satellite organization called the IFEM Institute, a not-for-profit dedicated to engaging in large-scale EM development contracts, projects and collaborations between IFEM and national EM societies, major hospital networks, national governments, ministries of health, finance, education and tourism, among others.

The International Conference for Emergency medicine (ICEM) meetings are very special to me, as I have a 30 year association with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) going back to the second ICEM in Brisbane 1988. This month’s ICEM meeting in Mexico City gave me great cause for optimism. Here’s why.

The most watched political meeting of the year, the first ever meeting between the President of the United States Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, took place in Singapore on Tuesday, 12 June 2018. This momentous summit was arranged on short notice. The local medical support arrangements for the event were a prime example of close cooperation between the visitors and the local healthcare system.